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James Conolly

Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (University College London)
Accepting Graduate Students 2026-27

Life & Health Sciences DNA C220, ext.7877,  jamesconolly@trentu.ca

Research Interests: landscape archaeology; historical ecology; geoinfomatics; radiocarbon modelling; lithic raw materials and technologies (Great Lakes)

​Laure Dubreuil

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Aix-Marseille), DEA, Ph.D. (Bordeaux I)

Life & Health Sciences DNA C212,  ext.6361, lauredubreuil@trentu.ca

Research Interests: prehistory of the Middle East, Epipaleolithic, Natufian, Mesolithic, Neolithization process, Epigravettian of Italy, Neolithization of Europe, ground-stone tools, grinding implements, use-wear studies, experimental archaeology, technology, design theory

Hugh Elton

Professor, Department of Cultural Studies
B.A. (Sheffield), D.Phil. (Oxford)

Lady Eaton College S107, ext.7838, hughelton@trentu.ca

Research Interests: field survey, archaeology of warfare, GIS, climate change, the late Roman eastern Mediterranean, the regions of Cilicia and Isauria in Southern Turkey

Rodney D. Fitzsimons

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cincinnati)

Life & Health Sciences DNA 220  ext.7264, rodneyfitzsimons@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece; architectural studies, energetics, monumental architecture; socio-political organisation, early state formation, urbanisation and urbanism; mortuary practices, funerary architecture; cultural identity, acculturation, ethnogenesis, hybridisation

Helen Haines

Associate Professor (Teaching Intensive), Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (University College London)

Trent Durham, 905 435-5100 ext.5045, 55 Thornton Rd., Oshawa, Office #181, helenhaines@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Ancient Maya, Early State Societies, Monumental Architecture, Economics and Socio-Political Development, Ontario pre-historic, and historic archaeology

Gyles Iannone

Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (Trent) Ph.D. (University College London)

Life & Health Sciences DNA C213 ext. 7453, giannone@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Early State Formations and Urbanism (especially in the tropics); Settlement Archaeology; Resilience Theory; The Archaeology of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Human Impact on Ancient Environments, and Collapse; Mesoamerica (especially Maya); South and Southeast Asia (especially Myanmar)

Jennifer Moore

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Chair, Department of Anthropology
Program Coordinator, Archaeology
B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)

Life & Health Sciences DNA C226, ext.6102, jmoore@trentu.ca

Research Interests: archaeology of ancient North Africa (c. 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.), especially votive and funerary practices, pottery as an indicator of culture and economy, and cultural identity

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Eugene Morin

Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A., M.Sc. (Montréal), DEA (Paris-X Nanterre), Ph.D. (Michigan)

Life & Health Sciences DNA C216, ext.7682, eugenemorin@trentu.ca

Research Interests: hunters-gatherers, archaeology, Paleolithic of Europe, methods and theory in faunal analysis, ethnohistory, prehistory of Northeastern North America 

Amy Scott

Amy Scott

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Forensic Science
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Manitoba)
Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-27

Life & Health Sciences DNA C211, ext.7661, amyscott@trentu.ca

Research Interests: bioarchaeology; forensic anthropology; human osteology; paleopathology; mortuary archaeology; ethics; death and dying; 18th century Atlantic Canada

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Paul Szpak

Professor, Department of Anthropology
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Archaeology
B.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western)
Accepting Graduate Students 2026-27

Life & Health Sciences DNA C227, ext.6373, paulszpak@trentu.ca

Research Interests: archaeological science, stable isotopes, palaeoecology, environmental archaeology, human-environment interactions, bone chemistry, palaeodiet, domestication and animal husbandry, Arctic, Peru, Chile

Lianne Tripp  

 

Lianne Tripp

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.Sc. (Toronto), M.A. (Toronto) , Ph.D. (Toronto)
Accepting Graduate Students 2026-27

Life & Health Sciences DNA C224, ext.7852, liannetripp@trentu.ca

Research Interests: Medical anthropology, biocultural and archival research, 19th and 20th Colonial health, demography, epidemics of infectious diseases, pandemics, Canada, Mediterranean

Jocelyn Williams

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Calgary)

Life & Health Sciences DNA C222, ext.7441, jocelynwilliams@trentu.ca

Research Interests: stable isotopes of C, N, Sr, O, human mobility, ancient diet, nutrition and health, infant feeding practices including breastfeeding and weaning; environment, social and political influences on diet and mobility; South America, Caribbean, North America

 

Faculty & Research

  • James Conolly
  • Laure Dubreuil
  • Hugh Elton
  • Rodney D. Fitzsimons
  • Helen Haines
  • Gyles Iannone
  • Jennifer Moore
  • Eugene Morin
  • Amy Scott
  • Paul Szpak
  • Lianne Tripp
  • Jocelyn Williams

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